anaheim-gazette 1912-02-22

C. PRESSEL & SON AWARDED CONTRACT WILL FURNISH THE IRON AND STEEL FOR NEW CITY JAIL Six Bids Received by Trustees at Special Meeting Thursday Night, Varying from $490 to $815—Total Cost of Jail and Stockade Will Be $3220—Portion of Broad Street Closed by Resolution—Other Notes of Special Meeting Six bids were filed with City Clerk Merritt for the construction of the iron and steel portion of the new city jail, and were opened and submitted to the board of trustees at a special meeting Thursday night. These bids were received in accordance with a second advertisement, as the bids opened on January 17, when the cement contract was let, were all rejected and the clerk instructed to re-advertise. The bids submitted Thursday night varied in total figures from $490 to $815, and were as follows: C. E. Chamberlain, for C.W.& Co., $510.; Bailey Or. Iron Co., $595; S. W. Or. Iron Works, $815; A. F. Anderson $622; Pressel & Son, $490; A. Bayliss, $670. The bid of Pressel & Son, the Anaheim blacksmiths and machinists, being twenty dollars below the next lowest, on motion of Gates, the work was awarded to that firm and City Attorney Ames instructed to draw up a contract. On January 17th contract for the cement work for the new jail and the cement stockade surrounding the city hall back yard was let to Chamberlain, Williamson & Chamberlain, up the matter of representation, and is working to secure the unanimous co-operation of the southern countries, and is hopeful of having one or two carloads of exhibits of grains, roots and vegetables. "The South American ambassadors are very enthusiastic over the possibilities of the dry farming congress going to some South American republic within a few years, and they look with interest upon the auxiliary work of the congress of farm women, and will request their respective governments to send prominent women delegates to the sessions of that organization at Lethbridge this fall," said Secretary Burns. "I have had the pleasure of meeting a large number of foreign representatives the past few days in Washington, and none were more enthusiastic than those from South America countries, where the dry-farming methods are being successfully adopted. Senor Don Ignacio Calderon, envoy extraordinary from Bolivia to the United States, accepted an invitation extended by me on behalf of the board of governors to address the congress at Lethbridge, and I have hopes that other ambassadors from South America will find the opportunity to make the trip and address the congress. All are interested in Western Canada and marvel at the development of the four provinces, and the desire to visit them may induce several to make the trip in October. LOSS AND DAMAGE CLAIMS Local Railroad Agents Given More Authority For the purpose of expediting business and getting closer to its customers through its local representatives, the Southern Pacific company has issued orders to many of its agents The bid of Pressel & Son, the Anaheim blacksmiths and machinists, being twenty dollars below the next lowest, on motion of Gates, the work was awarded to that firm and City Attorney Ames instructed to draw up a contract. On January 17th contract for the cement work for the new jail and the cement stockade surrounding the city hall back yard was let to Chamberlain, Williamson & Chamberlain, their bid being $2725. Adding to this Pressel's bid of $490, the total cost of the new bastile will aggregate $3220. The new addition will add sixteen bunks to the old jail and is one of the greatest needs of Anaheim. The stockade, also, where a woodpile and a rockpile will always be maintained for the benefit of the numerous hoboes and vagrants who are constantly breaking into jail, will be a valuable addition. It is believed that Anaheim will become very unpopular with this class of "undesirable citizens" after its completion. Heretofore it has been a favorite stopping place with them because if they could beg, steel or otherwise negotiate for a nickel or a dime they could find a bar at which to spend it. Resolution of Intention No. 97, vacating and closing up Broad street from Walnut to West street, was passed and ordered published. The petition of George Matthews for an extension of the electric-light system to his new residence at the corner of Palm and South streets, was laid over for further consideration. The house is more than two thousand feet beyond the present stopping point of the service, but three or four other dwellings are being erected along the route, and if all owners will sign up so customers for juice the wire will be extended. George M. Tedrick was granted a building permit to erect a $1500 residence on Clementina street. The petition of F. J. Dubbel for permission to move a frame building from Palm to South Olive street, was granted. This is the old Catholic parsonage. City Attorney Ames reported that C. Martin, whose barn projects into the new alley south of Center street, between Los Angeles and Lemon, had finally agree to accept the city's proposal and remove the same for $50. This clears the last obstruction from the alley. Superintendent of Streets Kellen- LOSS AND DAMAGE CLAIMS Local Railroad Agents Given More Authority For the purpose of expediting business and getting closer to its customers through its local representatives, the Southern Pacific company has issued orders to many of its agents at the principal stations along the route giving them authority to settle direct with consignees on ordinary loss and damage claims. At the present time the authority is extended only to certain agents in the more thickly settled territory. Claims for shortage and damage over which there is no dispute and which do not exceed a given amount can now be settled within a day or so after they have been filed with the agent. Much correspondence is saved and the delay that formerly resulted while the claims were being gone over in the general offices of the company in San Francisco is now eliminated. This move is only one of a number recently inaugurated by the Southern Pacific company. In addition to the automatic block signal system over the lines of the Southern Pacific there has been installed for the further protection of passengers a bell system for regulation of the speed of trains across the trestle over Great Salt Lake. The device is simple but it protects the passengers on this costly piece of engineering work. The trestle is twelve miles long and as a train enters or leaves it, a bell is rung in the station at Midlake. Twelve miles an hour is the speed limit for freight trains, and 20 miles per hour for the passenger trains. The agent at Midlake forwards a report of the trains that pass over this long bridge every day to the superintendent of the division and an accurate record is kept in this manner. The engineers taking trains across the lake have become so proficient in regulating the speed of their locomotives that they now make the run in precisely the allotted time and are always on time into Ogden. CELERY GROWERS PROSPERING Season Brings Them Good Returns for Product One of the most prosperous seasons in the history of the celery industry of this county is drawing to a permission to move a frame building from Palm to South Olive street was granted. This is the old Catholic parsonage. City Attorney Ames reported that C. Martin, whose barn projects into the new alley south of Center street, between Los Angeles and Lemon, had finally agree to accept the city's proposal and remove the same for $50. This clears the last obstruction from the alley. Superintendent of Streets Kellenberger reported that Mr. Mauerhan had complained that the Union water company's ditch on Palm street was obstructing the street and must be removed. Palm street is being extended and opened as far as Broad street and the ditch is on the new portion. The clerk was instructed to notify the water company to remove it. SOUTH AMERICA TO EXHIBIT Full Co-operation of all Counties in Dry-Farming Congress Washington, D.C., Feb. 15.—Full cooperation of the countries of South America in the seventh international dry-farming congress at Lethbridge, Oct. 21-26 was assured executive secretary-treasurer, John T. Burns, at a luncheon given in his honor and that of Mrs. Eleanor L. Burns, secretary of the international congress of farm women, at the Bolivian embassy. There was present the Ambassadors from Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela and each promised delegations to represent their respective countries and to send exhibits of dry-farmed products to the Lethbridge exposition. The Pan-American union has taken become so proficient in regulating the speed of their locomotives that they now make the run in precisely the allotted time and are always on time into Ogden. CELERY GROWERS PROSPERING Season Brings Them Good Returns for Product One of the most prosperous seasons in the history of the celery industry of this county is drawing to a close. The season has been remarkable for the extremely high prices received. Today No. 1 celery is selling for fifty-five cents a dozen bunches and the dealer pays the freight east. In ordinary years the growers are making money when the price is twenty cents a dozen bunches. The celery crop of the county this year has brought in already close to $500,000, if not more than that. The celery growers association has handled about 800 carloads of the vegetable, and the season will show its receipts to be about $400,000. The secretary at Smeltzer received a statement of the January pool from the California vegetable union, the selling agent of the association. This statement shows a total of $164,733, f.o.b. here. From that amount the deductions for the union's commissions are to be made before distribution is made. This amount does not include the January sales in Los Angeles, for which a statement is soon due. The average for the different grades cannot be made until that amount is received. There remains between fifteen and twenty carloads of "Golden Heart," for shipment by the association. Also there is a small acreage of the ÁNAHEIM GAZETTE BIXBY BUYS BIG RANCH Long Beach Man Pays $165,000 for Santa Barbara County Land Fred H. Bixby, owner of the Alamitos rancho near Long Beach, and reputed to be one of the wealthiest men of Los Angeles county, has completed negotiations for the purchase of the Cojo ranch, owned by Pat Murphy. The property contains 4,728 acres. The purchase price is said to be at the rate of $35 per acre, making the total amount invested $165,000. The ranch, which was one of the many valuable properties owned by Mr. Murphy in California, is located near Point Conception, in Santa Barbara county. Mr. Bixby will begin extensive improvements on the property he has acquired at once, and expects soon to make it one of the model ranches of its size in the state. ALL A BAD LOT A forlorn looking man was taken before a magistrate for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. When asked what he had to say for himself, he gazed pensively at the judge and smoothing down a remnant of gray hair, said: "Your honor, 'man's humanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. I'm not as debased as Swift, as profligate as Byron, as dissipated as Poe or as debauched as——" "That will do," thundered the magistrate. "Thirty days. And, officer, take a list of those names and run 'em in. They're as bad a lot as he is." INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL ly all their parts and functions, capacities far beyond those needed for ordinary life; that living beings must be understood from the point of view of the organism as a whole; and so that man as a whole must be regarded and not merely individual aspects of man; that laws of heredity prevail throughout nature, laws full of suggestion as to human inheritance and men's obligation to their offspring; and that apparently all the phenomena of living beings, including the highest aspects of human nature, seem to be correlated with chemico-physical phenomena. To disseminate knowledge of the discoveries of science as well as to discover new truth will be an object of the Scripps institution. LOS ALAMITOS Farmers and Factory Men Waiting for Rain The waiting list is a long one for the one thing needful. With the first rains, seeding for beets will be rushed with all the available apparatus. A visit to the agricultural department of the Los Alamitos sugar factory reveals broad acres to the extent of upwards of three thousand, all reduced to floor level and looking like a well kept garden, but now wholly on the waiting list, with the work completed. The horses also are on the waiting list, having been turned out to pasture, while the drivers have been metamorphosed into stationery engineers running the pumping-plants at the numerous artesian wells, the latter being no longer on the waiting list, but now in great demand. At the factory, many of the men working on repairs have recently joined the waiting list of field laborers. This does not necessarily mean that there will not be a factory run INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH To study what life and living beings are, and how the processes of life go on—this is the object of the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, at San Diego, which is about to be made a part of the University of California. Through the aid of Miss Ellen B. Scripps and E. W. Scripps, the Scripps institution for biological research has been built up until now it is recognized as one of the most significant and promising research institutions in America. The city of San Diego some years ago provided as a site 170 acres of public lands at La Jolla, with half a mile of ocean frontage. Here, through the support of the founders, was erected a fireproof concrete laboratory, containing twelve research rooms for scientific investigators, an aquarium, a library, a combined lecture room, a general laboratory, apparatus rooms, etc. There was provided also the two-masted schooner Alexander Agassiz, a 70-foot boat, 18-foot beam, with auxiliary gasoline engines of a capacity of 70 horse-power. The Agassiz is fitted out with the standard equipment of the international commission for investigation of the sea, including apparatus for sounding, for dredging to a depth of 6000 feet, for trawling, for hydrographic work, and for plankton work—the study of minute floating life in the sea. The boat is thoroughly seaworthy and available for collecting expeditions not only along the California shores but for long deep-sea voyages as well. Arrangements have now been made for the transfer of the Scripps institution for biological research, including all its properties and all its activities, to the university. Through the generosity of the founders approximately $10,000 annual income is available for the work of the station. Control, heretofore in the hands of the San Diego marine biological assailant, said: "Your honor, 'man's humanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. I'm not as debased as Swift, as profligate as Byron, as dissipated as Poe or as debauched as——" "That will do," thundered the magistrate. "Thirty days. And, officer, take a list of those names and run 'em in. They're as bad a lot as he is." This does not necessarily mean that there will not be a factory run—not yet; in fact, the Los Alamitos factory has never missed a season's campaign since it was built in 1896-7, not even in the three successive dry seasons of 1898, 1899 and 1900, and with abundant irrigation also the rains which are bound to come during the spring months a fair crop may be expected, although a late one. Upon the East ranch beet seeding has already begun upon irrigated ground. Since the beginning of the month the ranchers of the Bixby land company have done considerable irrigating from New river, also much land being covered from the flow of artesian wells which dot the rancho in all directions. The barley crop seems to be lost to view and the most approved dry farming methods are not producing results, in the entire absence of any rainfall, sufficient to record. However the conditions will doubtless change soon, and this all too glorious sunshine give way to the Indian sign of rain of "heavy clouds all around and pouring right down in the middle." $3,000,000 LEFT UNGUARDED During the last year over three hundred million 1-cent pieces, intended as payment for stamps, postal cards and money orders, were collected by the rural carriers from small boxes in which they had been deposited. Rural boxes are not safes, and quite a considerable amount was extracted by persons who are not fearful of the federal government. Postmaster General Hitchcock sent out a warning to all these who receive their mail through rural-carriers that they should deposit no more coins in their boxes. If they must buy stamps and money orders hereafter they should go to the post office or consult personally the carrier on their route. SNAKE DOSE WOULDN'T FIT "Now. Nora," said the departing for collecting expeditions not only along the California shores but for long deep-sea voyages as well. Arrangements have now been made for the transfer of the Scripps institution for biological research, including all its properties and all its activities, to the university. Through the generosity of the founders approximately $10,000 annual income is available for the work of the station. Control, heretofore in the hands of the San Diego marine biological association, will be delegated by the university to Miss Ellen B. Scripps, E. W. Scripps, President Benj. Ide Wheeler, and Dr. William E. Ritter, professor of zoology in the university and director of the Scripps institution. There is a permanent scientific staff, and visiting scientists come from many other universities to carry on research at the station. The rich variety of ocean life both plant and animal, make the San Diego region an ideal place for research Director Ritter feels that the investigations of biological science have profound significance for all men. Among some of the current generalizations of science which he points out as affecting human life and thought are the recognition that all living creatures, including human beings, are subject in all aspects of their natures to the principles of evolution; that the scientific doctrine of the struggle for life has been found to be far less widespread in its application than had until recently been thought, and that mutual helpfulness and a community life exist widely in nature, and set an example before human society; that law and order reign in the organic world; that all living beings have, in near- SNAKE DOSE WOULDN'T FIT "Now, Nora," said the departing physician to the Irish girl who was nursing a bad case of fever, "If the patient sees snakes again give him a dose of this medicine. I will be in at 6." The hour for his return arrived. The physician once more visited the sick patient and found him raving. He had been so, said the nurse, for hours. "And did you give him the medicine?" inquired the puzzled doctor. Nora shook her head. "But didn't I tell you to give it to him if he saw snakes again?" demanded the physician. "But he didn't say he saw snakes this time, doctor," replied the nurse confidently. "He said he saw red, white and blue turkeys wid straw hats on." DOUBLY PROVEN Anaheim Readers Can No Longer Doubt the Evidence This grateful citizen testified long ago. Told of quick relief—of lasting benefit. The facts are now confirmed. Such testimony is complete—the evidence conclusive. It forms convincing proof of merit. Mrs. H. Schroeder, 435 S. Orange St., Orange, Calif., says: "I suffered so severely from Kidney disease that I really did not expect to get much relief. I had headaches and pains in my back and finally my heart became affected. I thought it well to try Doan's Kidney Pills, as I had heard them highly recommended and I procured a box. I used them as directed and I received a great relief." 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